Privacy Statement

General

The privacy of our users is important to the WCRA. This privacy statement explains what personal data we collect from you and how we use it. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact the WCRA at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 651-293-0999 or 1-800-293-8006.

Personal Information Collection Generally

This website is intended for use by our members and other authorized users. Authorized users may log in to access and use non-public areas of our website. In addition, there are areas of this website that are generally accessible to the public that provide information about the WCRA and its programs. The WCRA also makes publicly available calculators to assist our members and other authorized users with certain calculations that are important to evaluating workers’ compensation claims and benefits.

The WCRA does not require you to submit or input personal information to view the public areas of our website. If you elect to use our calculators, you may be required to input certain information to allow the calculator to complete its calculation. For a discussion of the type of information required to use the calculators please see the information below under the heading “Calculators.”

Personal Information Collection Authorized Users

If you apply to be an authorized user of the non-public areas of our website, you are required to input information such as name and address in order for us to serve you appropriately and to determine your status. If as an authorized user of the WCRA you choose to use the non-public areas of our website, you will be required to log-in and agree to the terms and conditions related to the use of the non-public areas of our website. These terms and conditions will address, among other things, the nature of the information that you may submit as well as the WCRA’s use of such information.

Calculators

In order to use WCRA's publicly available online calculators you may need to insert information related to a specific workers’ compensation claim, including information such as date of birth, date of injury, supplemental eligibility dates, average weekly wage, initial weekly TTD, PTD status, benefits period, date of death, dependency situation, payment information, gender, percent of disability, nature of disability, total pure premium, weekly payments, attorney costs and previously paid benefits. The information you enter into the WCRA's online calculators is not collected by the WCRA and is discarded once you exit the calculator. Please note that calculators are for information purposes only and no guarantee, explicit or implied, is made by the WCRA regarding the calculators’ accuracy or suitability for a specific purpose.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics to help analyze how visitors use this site. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are small text files placed on your computer, to collect standard internet log information and visitor behavior information in an anonymous form. No personally identifiable information is collected about you unless you explicitly submit that information on this website.

The anonymous information generated by Google Analytics cookies about your use of this website is transmitted to Google – not the WCRA. This information is processed to compile statistical reports on website activity for this site only. The WCRA uses these reports to evaluate aggregate visitor usage so that it can optimize the content, and its marketing, to better meet your needs.

Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site – for more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google page.

Notification of Changes

The WCRA reserves the right to modify or supplement this privacy policy at any time. You should visit this page periodically to review the most recent Privacy Statement. This Privacy Statement was last updated on December 18, 2017.